Microsoft's popular open-source, cross-platform code editor, Visual Studio Code (VS Code), has received an update of its new project view, better known as the Java Projects Explorer.

An academic paper [PDF] published in 2018 identified a code snippet Lundblad posted on the site as the most copied Java code taken from StackOverflow and then re-used in open source projects.

This Visual Studio Code for Java tutorial shows you how to install the Java extensions pack for VS Code, create a Java project and run a simple program.

With the Extension Pack for Java, VS Code makes a highly capable Java IDE and formidable competitor to Eclipse, NetBeans, and IntelliJ IDEA.

The latest update to Java on Visual Studio Code improves the debugging experience thanks to support for the newly released Java 19. Java 19 shipped a month ago with a preview of Virtual Threads and ...

With its ease of running code in many environments, the Java platform attracts a large share of open-source development interest.

Microsoft's Visual Studio Code team for Java development added a new Coding Pack for Java installer and detailed best practices for setting up a development environment.

Sonatype, the chief commercial supporter of the open-source Maven project, is working with Oracle to bring Java.net project artifacts to the Maven Central Repository.